Re: [orca-list] orca problem on scrolling web sites

[Vojtěch Polášek <krecoun gmail com>]

Hi,
well, whatever you did, I think it fixed the problem.
But I still encounter the problem, where I can't move down the web site
with down arrows and I have to alt-tab out of it and back again to fix it.
Thanks,
Vojta

On 13.6.2015 01:49, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:
> Hi again Vojta.
>
> I have a candidate fix, at least for the DuckDuckGo issue, which I am
> regression testing before committing. However, it will only fix things
> on pages where what you are navigating in is focusable. The reason why
> is that there is a bug in Firefox or Gecko in which setting the caret
> via AtkText doesn't cause the element with that caret to be scrolled
> into view. The exception is if the caret is set in a focusable
> element, like a link. This makes sense because if sighted users Tab to
> a link that's offscreen and that link was not scrolled into view,
> those users would be extremely surprised.
> When Mozilla fixes their bug, it should solve anything my fix does
> not. The Mozilla bug is here
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1170242.
>
> --joanie
>
> On 2015-06-12 16:01, Vojtěch Polášek wrote:
> > Hi,
> > Try this:
> > 1. open Facebook
> > 2. scroll down using 'h' to move by headings.
> > 3. At one place you will be returned back to top. Try going to the most
> > bottom heading you can find and use down arrow or for example 'o' key to
> > read further. There is further text but 'h' keeps returning me to the
> > top.
> > Also I encounter other problem, which is present for longer time.
> > Sometimes I have to press page down for site to scroll and for Orca to
> > be able to read it. But this is obviously also broken now.
> > Best regards,
> > Vojta
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